Body dissatisfaction: Eating disorders among teens more than doubled during the COVID pandemic
By Sydney Hartman-Munick, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UMass Chan Medical School The COVID-19 pandemic has been associated with worsening mental health among teens, including increasing numbers of patients with eating disorders. In fact, research indicates that...
Metabolic Syndrome: Why obesity in children risks lifelong health consequences
By Christine Nguyen, 2023 California Health Equity Fellow, University of Southern California In the past two decades, children have become more obese and have developed obesity at a younger age. A 2020 report found that 14.7 million children and adolescents in the...
Trade Wars: Global manufacturing remains centered in China even with geopolitical and supply chain issues
By Walid Hejazi, Professor of International Business, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto; and Bernardo Blum, Associate Professor, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto With the current geopolitical challenges between China and the United...
An ethical debt: Why Tech companies should pay the consequences if AI becomes harmful
By Casey Fiesler, Associate Professor of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder As public concern about the ethical and social implications of artificial intelligence keeps growing, it might seem like it’s time to slow down. But inside tech companies...
Undermining Democracy: How artificial intelligence could impact elections by changing voting behavior
By Archon Fung, Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government, Harvard Kennedy School; and Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard University Could organizations use artificial intelligence language models such as ChatGPT to induce voters to behave in...
Silicon Gold: Artificial Intelligence chips have suddenly taken center stage in the AI revolution
The hottest thing in technology is an unprepossessing sliver of silicon closely related to the chips that power video game graphics. It is an artificial intelligence chip, designed specifically to make building AI systems such as ChatGPT faster and cheaper. Such chips...
AI-powered stock trades: The benefits and perils of Wall Street using artificial intelligence
By Pawan Jain, Assistant Professor of Finance, West Virginia University Artificial Intelligence-powered tools, such as ChatGPT, have the potential to revolutionize the efficiency, effectiveness and speed of the work humans do. And this is true in financial markets as...
A Black Box: What it means when the inner workings of an AI’s machine learning are hidden from users
By Saurabh Bagchi, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University For some people, the term “black box” brings to mind the recording devices in airplanes that are valuable for postmortem analyses if the unthinkable happens. For others it evokes...
Race Relations: How the Carters and the Kings forged an alliance even though Jimmy and Martin never met
The voice of Martin Luther King Sr., a melodic tenor like his slain son, carried across Madison Square Garden, calming the raucous Democrats who had nominated his friend and fellow Georgian for the presidency. “Surely, the Lord sent Jimmy Carter to come on out...
The American Revolution: Six surprising facts about the Declaration of Independence and its purpose
By Woody Holton, Professor of History, University of South Carolina Americans may think they know a lot about the Declaration of Independence, but many of those ideas are elitist and wrong, as historian Woody Holton explains. His 2021 book Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden...
Voting against Democracy: A long list of the Republican Party’s very Anti-American political agenda
If any American votes for a Republican, they are selecting someone who, once elected, is unlikely to support your views on the issues that matter to you most. Instead, here is a list of what you are choosing with your ballot. Guns The vast majority of Americans favor...
A Black Jesus: Antique stained-glass church window stirs questions of New England’s role in slave trade
A nearly 150-year-old stained-glass church window that depicts a dark-skinned Jesus Christ interacting with women in New Testament scenes has stirred up questions about race, Rhode Island’s role in the slave trade and the place of women in 19th century New...
